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Shipwreck in the Sky, by Eando Binder
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Title: Shipwreck in the Sky
Author: Eando Binder
Release Date: June 15, 2009 [EBook #29133]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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There is a warm feeling about welcoming back into the pages of a science fiction magazine the work of a writer who is a legend in the genre. So, here's Binder and a neatly wrapped-up package of a folktale of the future.
shipwreck in the sky
by ... Eando Binder
The flight into space that made Pilot-Capt. Dan Barstow famous.
The flight was listed at GHQ as Project Songbird. It was sponsored by the Space Medicine Labs of the U.S. Air Force. And its pilot was Captain Dan Barstow.
A hand-picked man, Dan Barstow, chosen for the AF's most important project of the year because he and his VX-3 had already broken all previous records set by hordes of V-2s, Navy Aerobees and anything else that flew the skyways.
Dan Barstow, first man to cross the sea of air and sight open, unlimited space. Pioneer flight to infinity. He grinned and hummed to himself as he settled down for the long jaunt. Too busy to be either thrilled or sca